wiggle room
Noun
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Noun
wiggle room (uncountable)
- (informal) The opportunity to make alternative decisions or to pursue other courses of action, especially any involving only minor changes to one's present situation or course.
- 1999, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed, ISBN 9780842329262, p. 145 ↗:
- There was no wiggle room here, no leeway, no margin for error.
- 2003, Terry McCarthy and Karen Tumulty, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005371,00.html Davis vs. Davis]," Time, 4 Aug.:
- "Nothing I know right now interests me in running," she said last week. But that leaves her some wiggle room, should things change.
- 1999, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed, ISBN 9780842329262, p. 145 ↗:
- flexibility, latitude, leeway, elbow room, maneuvering room, wobble room
- French: marge de manœuvre
- German: Spielraum
- Russian: пространство
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